Krisel Tract Home, 1882 S. Caliente Road (APN 511032005-9)

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.

From the record

One of 90 National Register listings published here for Riverside County · listed in 2019 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 1882 South Caliente Rd., Palm Springs, Agua Caliente Indian Reservation, 92264
When was it listed? December 2019
Category. building
Census division. Palm Springs
National Register reference number. 100004813 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Then and now

1901 to 1996

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 95 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Krisel Tract Home, 1882 S. Caliente Road (APN 511032005-9), surveyed 1996

Topographic sheet covering Krisel Tract Home, 1882 S. Caliente Road (APN 511032005-9), surveyed 1901

Fires near this property

291 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 291 fires within 5 miles of Krisel Tract Home, 1882 S. Caliente Road (APN 511032005-9) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,615 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 24 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	173
Equipment and vehicle use	34
Arson/incendiarism	24
Misuse of fire by a minor	16
Recreation and ceremony	11
Natural	10
Smoking	10
Power generation/transmission/distribution	7
Debris and open burning	5
Other causes	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
9 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
8 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	18 acres	San Bernardino National Forest	PALM
8 September 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
7 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	San Bernardino National Forest	PALM 2
30 September 2010	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
30 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
3 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named

Every fire recorded in Riverside County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Krisel Tract Home, 1882 S. Caliente Road (APN 511032005-9): 4 occurrences, 4 past producers, 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Tungsten, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Corundum. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Agua Caliente Indian Land	Corundum, Gemstone	Occurrence
Chino Canyon Deposits	Limestone, General	Occurrence
Good Hope Mine	Gold	Past Producer
Palm Springs	Geothermal	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Phoenix Tungsten	Tungsten	Occurrence	Scheelite
Phoenix Tungsten	Tungsten	Past Producer	Scheelite
Phoenix Tungsten Prospect	Tungsten	Prospect
Unnamed Prospects	Tungsten	Occurrence	Scheelite

Every working recorded in Riverside County

Maps showing this location

16 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1901 USGS San Jacinto quadrangle1:125000 - 9 printings
1901 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000 - 6 printings
1904 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1940 USGS Palm Springs quadrangle1:62500
1944 USGS Palm Springs quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
1949 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Palm Springs quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
1957 USGS Palm Springs quadrangle1:24000 - 6 printings
1959 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1960 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1965 USGS Santa Ana quadrangle1:250000
1975 USGS Palm Springs quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Palm Springs quadrangle1:100000 - 3 printings
1996 USGS Palm Springs quadrangle1:24000

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Koerner House	0.5 miles	2016
First Church of Christ, Scientist	0.9 miles	2016
Sandcliff	0.9 miles	2025
Coachella Valley Savings No. 2	1.4 miles	2016
Arthur Elrod House	1.4 miles	2016
Coachella Valley Savings No. 1	1.5 miles	2016

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100004813 in Record Group 79.
Riverside County	All 90 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.